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Fires Near Minneapolis, MN

Live wildfire tracking around Minneapolis: every active fire within 300 miles with distance, size, containment, wind, smoke, and air quality, from official US sources.

6
Fires within 100 mi
178 mi
Nearest fire
0
Weather alerts
43
Air quality · Good

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Live risk assessment for Minneapolis, MN

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Fire activity exists in the wider area but poses no immediate threat to this location. Check back daily while fires remain active.

  • No active fires within 50 miles, no fire weather alerts, and clean air right now.
There are currently 45 active fires within 300 miles of Minneapolis, MN, including 6 within 100 miles. None are inside Minneapolis city limits. The most significant is the Bog fire, 178 miles away at 94 acres. No firefighting aircraft have been active within 50 miles of Minneapolis, MN in the past 12 hours.
Air quality measured at the Minneapolis - Near Road monitor is good (AQI 43).
Early signal: satellite heat detected nearby. Satellites picked up 5 heat detections in the last 24 hours, the closest about 14 miles away, that do not match any officially reported fire. Detections like this are often the first public sign of a new ignition, though they can also be industrial heat or agricultural burning. Turn on the Satellite heat layer on the map below and check back over the next few hours.

House pin: Minneapolis, MN. Bold outline: Minneapolis city limits. Dashed rings show distance from the city center. Red or amber shaded zones are active evacuation areas.

Evacuation status

Minnesota does not publish a live evacuation zone feed covering this location yet, so we cannot confirm zone-level status here either way. During an active fire, check the county emergency links in the resources section below; that is where evacuation notices are posted first.

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Fires by distance

City limits
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no fires
≤ 25 mi
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no fires
≤ 50 mi
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no fires
≤ 100 mi
6
1 acres
≤ 200 mi
17
103 acres
≤ 300 mi
45
400K acres

This season vs the last decade

101% of an average year
Burned so far in 202655 acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)54 acres

So far in 2026, 55 acres have burned within 25 miles of Minneapolis, 101% of the 54 acres burned in an average full year from 2016 to 2025.

Active fires near Minneapolis, MN

Every active fire within 300 miles, closest first.

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Latest updates on fires near Minneapolis

Generated automatically from official feeds the moment they change: size, containment, evacuation zones, aircraft, and incident team updates.

  1. Ridge Fire · Official update: MNSUF 2026 Superior National Forest Planned Prescribed FireMNSUF

    8 days ago · September 17, 2026

  2. Bear Fire · New perimeter mapped at 0 acres (national perimeter feed)

    10 days ago · September 16, 2026

  3. Bog Fire · New perimeter mapped at 55 acres (national perimeter feed)

    12 days ago · September 14, 2026

  4. Flowage Fire · New perimeter mapped at 8 acres (national perimeter feed)

    14 days ago · September 11, 2026

  5. Quartz Fire · New perimeter mapped at 3 acres (national perimeter feed)

    16 days ago · September 9, 2026

  6. Tractor Fire · New perimeter mapped at 2 acres (national perimeter feed)

    16 days ago · September 9, 2026

  7. Bear Trap Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    17 days ago · September 8, 2026

  8. Flowage Fire · New perimeter mapped (national perimeter feed)

    17 days ago · September 8, 2026

  9. Sioux Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    17 days ago · September 8, 2026

  10. Wolfpack Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    17 days ago · September 8, 2026

Historic fires near Minneapolis

The largest wildfires on record within 100 miles.

Muddy Creek
2009
390 acres · 74 mi away

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